ACTION 41: When new eGovernment services are being developed, these will, where appropriate, be designed to support cross organisational data sharing opportunities and to facilitate interoperability. This will be a key element of the National Interoperability Framework which will be prepared to comply with the EU Digital Agenda.

EU Returns Extranet (Restricted)

( Action 41 - completed )

This extranet allows the Department of the Taoiseach track and report on the transposition of EU Directives across all government Departments.Directives are assigned to Departments who all have access to the extranet within the system and progress is updated. The Department of the Taoiseach has a co-ordination role and uses the system to produce up-to-date reports for our ICCEUA meetings which are chaired by our Minister of State for European Affairs.The system is also used to track and report on infringement cases brought against Ireland by the EU.

This system facilitates the Department in fulfilling its aimto have Ireland consistently within the top group on the EU Internal Market Scoreboard which monitors transposition of EU Directives.

A username and password is required to access the system. Each user account is assigned to a Department and users can only update Directives that their Department has responsibility for.

This extranet was developed in the Department of the Taoiseach to assist in the co-ordination of reports on Ministerial events across government. Each Department has access to the system and updates it with diary details on domestic and foreign events that their Minister is due to attend. The system is then used to produce reports for the weekly cabinet meetings and for circulation to the media.

Prior to the development of this system, reports were created from diverse information sources such as emails from Departments. The system has allowed the introduction of standardised information input and reporting.

A username and password is required to access the system. Each user account is assigned a ministerial profile and users can only create events for their Minister/Minister of State.

National Parks and Wildlife Service - Data capture and management standards

( Action 41 - in progress )

Considerable progress has been made in
developing data capture and management standards for use with NPWS scientific
data to ensure inter-operability between datasets.This is being expanded on to include more
administrative data types as part of the BIOS project.

Because of its legal mandate to preserve the archives
of modern Irish government, the National Archives is naturally concerned that
the e-records created by e-Government activities are preserved. To this end, it
hopes to pilot a project during 2013 for the preservation of the archival
e-Cabinet records in conjunction with the Digital Repository of Ireland.

The National Museum
of Ireland is one of the members of the Advisory Group to Digital Repository of
Ireland. The National Museum of Ireland is also one of the members of the
AthenaPlus, a grouping of National Institutions from different countries in
Europe, funded by the EU to increase content in Europeana.eu. The National
Museum of Ireland has also partnered with Clarity on project research such as
virtual 3D-spaces. Also, the National Museum partnered with the collaborative
project Irish Community Archive
Networkhttp://www.ouririshheritage.org/

The Department is developing a deduction at source facility to support the processing of deduction requests from Revenue in respect of Local Property Tax.A new information exchange will be implemented and the necessary business and ICT infrastructure will be in place for the introduction of LPT in July 2013.

The Department is currently participating in a EU programme on the Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information. Although progress at EU level is slower than anticipated and is not now expected to be in place before 2014, when completed this will allow EU member states to exchange social security information electronically.

The PPS number is a unique personal identifier and is used extensively by Government Departments and other authorised users to provide the public with secure access to a wide range of public services.The Department of Social Protection is responsible for the allocation of the PPS numbers and has estimated that the remaining stock of usable numbers will be exhausted in 2014.With effect from 1st of January 2013, the Department of Social Protection are introducing a new range of PPS numbers, using a combination of numeric and alpha characters. Revenue has now adapted all its integrated customer applications, paper forms and third party interfaces to conform to this new DSP format.

On the 1st January 2015, a Mini One Stop Shop (MOSS) for the EU providers of telecommunications, broadcasting and electronic services to consumers will be introduced to simplify VAT compliance rules in the EU. The One Stop Shop will allow businesses to declare and pay the VAT in the Member State where they are established rather than where their customer belongs. The One Stop Shop system that is currently limited to non-EU providers of electronic services is being extended to EU businesses and to broadcasting and telecom services.

Revenue provides tax and trade data to the CSO using secure data transfer methods. This reduces the administration burden on business, in particular with regard to eliminating duplication of data submission. For example, a new eStamping extract provides details of all residential and commercial property sales.

An Garda Siochana has access to the Department of Justice and Equality designed Supply Agreement Database and contracts/supply agreements are entered up on this system. The Justice system has automatic contract expiry alerts. When the new e-Tenders contract monitoring suites are fully operational the Department plan to migrate the Supply Agreement Database material over to the new e-Tenders system. All Garda contracts are entered on the system.

An Garda Síochána and the Prisons Service are putting in place an electronic facility to allow operational Garda members query online the Prisoner Information system to ascertain if a person is in prison custody.